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敬

敬

Translingual

Han character

敬 (radical 66 攴+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 廿口人大 (TROK), four-corner 48640, composition ⿰苟攵)

  1. respect, honor
  2. respectfully

Derived characters

Synonyms

Antonyms

References

  • KangXi: page 473, character 35
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13285
  • Dae Jaweon: page 826, character 17
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1466, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+656C

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 敬

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 敬
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 庚 (111)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 居慶切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kˠiæŋH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kᵚiaŋH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kiaŋH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kiajŋH/
Li
Rong		 /kiɐŋH/
Wang
Li		 /kĭɐŋH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ki̯ɐŋH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jìng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 敬
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 jìng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kjængH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*kreŋ(ʔ)-s/
English respectful

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 敬
Reading # 1/1
No. 6885
Phonetic
component		 敬
Rime
group		 耕
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 敬
Old
Chinese		 /*kreŋs/

Definitions

敬

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Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

敬

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
敬
けい
Grade: 6
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese 敬 ‎(kjængH, “respectful”).

Pronunciation

Affix

敬 ‎(hiragana けい, romaji kei)

  1. respect, honor, reverence
Usage notes

Used in kanji compounds. Not used in isolation except as a suru verb.[1][2] See 敬する.

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
敬
うやまい
Grade: 6
kun'yomi

The 連用形 ‎(ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 敬う ‎(uyamau, “to resepect, to esteem”).[1][2]

Pronunciation

Alternative forms

  • 敬い

Noun

敬 ‎(hiragana うやまい, romaji uyamai)

  1. respect, esteem
Usage notes

More commonly spelled as 敬い with the okurigana.

Etymology 3

Used as ateji in various names.

Proper noun

敬 ‎(hiragana たかし, romaji Takashi)

  1. A male given name

References

  1. 1 2 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  2. 1 2 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9

Korean

Hanja

敬 • ‎(gyeong) (hangeul 경, revised gyeong, McCune-Reischauer kyŏng, Yale kyeng)

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Vietnamese

Han character

敬 (kính)

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Etymology

Historical forms of the character 敬
Bronze inscriptions Bamboo and silk script Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (敬) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
蟼 *kraː, *kreŋ, *kreŋʔ
憼 *kaŋʔ, *kreŋʔ
驚 *kreŋ
警 *kreŋʔ
儆 *kreŋʔ, *ɡreŋs
璥 *keŋʔ
檠 *kreŋʔ, *ɡreŋ, *ɡreŋs
敬 *kreŋs
擎 *ɡreŋ
曔 *ɡreŋs

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 茍 + 攵, logic unclear.

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